M6600 Owners Thread

Any WiFi module should work --- as long as they are generic, there are some cards out there that only work in particular types of laptops.

I don't think there would be a problem putting a different card in the WWAN slot. I put a full-height WiFi card in there for testing once and it worked fine (though it did not respect the physical wireless switch).

You cannot use the Intel GPU while an AMD card is in the system. However if you really want to, you can physically remove the AMD card and the Intel GPU will work. (You might lose HDMI+DisplayPort.)

 

Yea i know about removing, forgot to mention that. Wanted to ask here because all info i found on m8900 disabling was from early 2012. Was hopping someone had modded bios for it or something like that.

I'm gonna post EDIT2 from my previous post here. Reason for that is that you answered after I've edited it and since its a last post on a previous page I dont think anyone will see it.

While looking trough various fan control options I've noticed that there is Dell provided software with build in various fan speed options. Is there any way of regulating the fans manually?

On my old nc8430 I've managed to control fans tru editing APCI tables in registry, also this was possible on my current 8530p. Is there anything like this feasable on m6600?

I will most likely oc m8900 when it arrives to me but i dont not like to see temps going past 80c, willing to trade some fan noise while gaming on it. So in the end i might end up undervolting gpu and leave it at stock clocks. Time will tell

Can someone measure few things for me?
I need lengths marked by red lines on the picture bellow.
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Since my current home-made cooling pad for 8530p is too small for my future notebook I'm gonna make my own custom made cooling pad for use when i finally find time for gaming. Got few leftover 140mm and 120mm fans from my desktop rig and also few oak panels so I need those dimensions to know where and what to cut to make fans blow at exact spots where i think its needed the most.

 

In your opinion the lack of TRIM is caused by RAID created from two SSD's or the lack of TRIM is caused by SSD's under Linux?
I want to find out where can be the problem. In RAID or in Samsung 840Pro SSD's?

 

Linux supports TRIM for SSDs and I have no reason to believe that it wouldn't work with the Samsung 840Pro. However, a RAID array might not appear as an SSD to the OS, as you see the logical RAID volume as your device, not the individual disks. On Windows, special drivers are needed to get TRIM working with Intel's RAID. Not sure what the situation is on Linux.

 

No trim for raid is due to limitation of intel chipset. The build in garbage collection will still work.

 

Is the Smartcard reader a separate component from a fingerprint reader or are they combined?

BTW, I have a fingerprint reader.

 

I think it's separate. I only have the fingerprint reader as well, I vaguely recall 'with smart card reader', anyway if you look in this picture:

http://i805.photobucket.com/albums/yy338/andyalien/eBay/Precision/M6600OpenCameraFIPSBacklit.jpg

You can see a small card reader icon in the middle of the right palm rest, that's supposed to be the card reader.

 

Yes..that's prosupport for 2 more years...I'm of course doing it

 

Oh ok, I thought that was just another sticker. It's been gone for awhile now. As a sticker I hope it wasn't important and just showed where the reader was located.

Anyway, I don't have a smartcard. What I'm trying to figure out is an occassional error I'm getting with the recent DDPA Control Vault Firmware A28. Earlier problem was lack of Pre-Windows FPR, killing my USB ports and Disabling Smartcard reader usbccid. Currently I'm not losing PW-FPR or USB ports but if/when that occassional fault happens I lose that eject hardware icon and proceed to check Device Manager and SCR is dead. BTW that's using DDPA A06.

Improve one thing, break another.

Edit Add: SCR is an option, but I guess my build had it included:

J90F9
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Assembly, Palmrest, Contactless Smart Card, W/SWP, M6600
1803X

Thanks.

 

still having problems to read my SD card...